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Austin Toombs

Austin Toombs

Visiting Researcher

toombsa@purdue.edu

Bio Publications

I am currently an Assistant Professor at Purdue University, in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology within the Purdue Polytechnic Institute. I manage the Community-Computer Interaction Lab (C-CIL) with my graduate and undergraduate students.

In Spring 2017 completed a postdoc (Research Associate) at Open Lab within Newcastle University.

2017

From Empathy to Care: A Feminist Care Ethics Perspective on Long-Term Researcher-Subject Relations

Toombs A Gross S Bardzell S Bardzell J

2017 – Interacting with Computers

Open website 10.1093/iwc/iww010

Making a critical playshop

Toombs AL Ferri G Grimme S Gross S Stallings MD Bardzell J Bardzell S

2017 – Interactions

Open website 10.1145/3019006

2015

Flow of Competency in UX Design Practice

Gray CM Toombs A Gross S

2015 – CHI’15: 2015 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/2702123.2702579

The Proper Care and Feeding of Hackerspaces: Care Ethics and Cultures of Making <strong> </strong>

Toombs A Bardzell S Bardzell J

2015 – CHI’15: 2015 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/2702123.2702522

2014

Becoming Makers: Hackerspace Member Habits, Values, and Identities

Toombs A Bardzell S Bardzell J

2014 – Journal of Peer Production

"Now that's definitely a proper hack": Self-made Tools in Hackerspaces

Bardzell J Bardzell S Toombs A

2014 – CHI '14: 2014 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/2556288.2557221

2013

A tribute to Mad Skill: Expert Amateur Visuality and World of Warcraft Machinima

Pace T Toombs A Gross S Pattin T Bardzell J Bardzell S

2013 – CHI’13: Proceedings of the 2013 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

2011

The significant screwdriver: care, domestic masculinity, and interaction design

Bardzell S Gross S Wain J Toombs A Bardzell J

2011 – Proceedings of the 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

2009

An experience report and analysis of Java technologies in undergraduate game programming courses

Gestwicki P Haddad A Toombs A Sun F

2009 – Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges

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